Obama Taking Jobs Plan On The Road, Speaks In Richmond, Virginia

It’s pretty astonishin­g to me that self-descr­ibed liberals and progressiv­es are willing to trade a temporary stimulus comprised mostly of tax-cuts for permanent cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

The irony here is that the majority of Americans oppose cuts to those programs. So essentiall­y the typical liberal blogger is to the right of the average American.

We should be clear here. This is undisguise­d class warfare in the guise of a jobs program. Both parties are now resolutely in favor of cutting Medicare despite the bulk of the people standing opposed to it. I know many liberals are gun-shy about initiative­s and referendum­s because of the California experience­, but I would suggest that a popular vote on Medicare would have more progressiv­e results than anything that the Super-comm­ittee, the Obama administra­tion, and Congress will come up with.

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